Adeniyi Ademola, justice of the federal high court, has withdrawn from the trial of Sambo Dasuki, a former national security adviser of Nigeria.
Justice Ademola is one of the judges targeted in the crackdown by the country’s secret police, the State Security Services, SSS, also known by the acronym of its mailing address, the DSS.
Ademola announced his decision to withdraw from the trial before the court on Tuesday, October 18, 2016.
He cited allegations of corruption levelled against him by the SSS, which is the prosecution in the case, as the reason for his action.
The SSS raided Ademola’s house, and arrested him in the midnight of October 8, 2016.
The secret police claimed it found huge sums of money — foreign currencies — in his possession.
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